You should walk with your chest out, your stomach in and your gaze level in the distance… This is the way boys should walk.įerdinand Marcos is meanwhile taking a stranglehold on the nation’s government. His father observes that something in his gait is off. The labels-“you’re a fag, ha-ha-ha!” classmates shout-come before before he can fully understand that he is attracted to the same sex. He pines for his best friend Luis, imagining his “smooth skin and… face aureoled with light” every night he goes to bed. I walked down their cemented stairs, grabbed a pebble, no, a rock, and hurled it at their windowpane… The smashed window looked like the teeth of a shark.ĭanilo is too young to understand why people are alienated by him, but as he gets older, his being different takes a certain shape. Even as a young boy, going to watch television at a friend’s house, the mother responds by slamming the door in his face. From the get-go, something about Danilo is different, and everyone in his village can make it out. Danilo Cruz, the protagonist of Danton Remoto’s Riverrun, is a young Filipino man raised near an American army base.
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